Creedence on vinyl

Ace Records is a wonderful thing.

When I went through a heavily diligent period of excavating as many “songwriter/scribe-only,” ‘60s songs by Carole King (Goffin/King) and Randy Newman as I could find, Ace Records CD compilations were as good a source as any.

They made several voluminous compilations for both Carole and Randy of their early, songwriting-only tracks from the ‘60s.  They sound great, are loaded, and provide the listener with several super-obscure 45s I would have never heard otherwise, several of which are simply tremendous songs.

Excellent @tylermunns! Analogue Productions also has fantastic LP’s of Elvis and Roy Orbison titles featuring glorious 1950’s sound, recordings made with tube equipment, vocals often captured with the legendary Neumann/Telefunken U47 tube microphone. Far better than most 1960’s Rock ’n’ Roll recordings, just as is true of Jazz and Classical recordings, most notably Blue Note and Prestige for the former, RCA and Mercury for the latter.

In the late-80’s I met and spoke with Bill Inglot, the engineer responsible for most of the Rock ’n’ Roll LP reissues and compilations Rhino released that decade. I risked offending him by saying I found the Ace LP’s of the same titles he had made for Rhino to sound better than his. He was cool, and admitted he agreed with me. He attributed it to the superior equipment Ace provided their engineer, Bob Jones. By the way, another good UK reissue label is Edsel (appropriate name ;-), an offshoot of Ace if I’m not mistaken.

@bdp24 Interesting conversation with Mr. Inglot.  I was impressed with the sound of the Ace CDs, for sure. Not sure the dates on those, I’m thinking late ‘00s. Rhino seems to be hit-or-miss, sound-wise.  I’ve heard some pretty good stuff from them and some really weak stuff.  I had several original Sire ‘79 vinyl LPs of Fear of Music that were too bright.  I decided to get a recent Rhino reissue and it was indeed a better slab o’ wax. Their Fun House, not so good.

Any Analogue Productions vinyl I have is ridiculously good.  

That 45 rpm version of the Crying LP by Orbison of theirs…(cue Homer Simpson drooly-gargley sound)

Correction: I misspoke on Rhino. That Fun House I used to have was not a Rhino.  
The more I think of it, the more Rhino has been great.

Those Black Sabbath reissues I got of theirs were awesome.

I don’t own a TT. So I got the EU CD (Best Of) from 2008 hoping for a decent quality sound. I liked all the songs on the disc. But man, the sound quality sucks big time on this disc. Spotify recently introduced me to some CCR songs and I got hooked.